Category: Women/Gender

MIMS, A. GRACE LEE (17 July 17 1930 – 3 October 2019) was an educator, a musician, and an advocate for African-American culture.  She was born in Snow Hill, Alabama, to Arnold Wadsworth and Alberta Grace (Edwards) Lee.  Hers was a musical family. Her father, a band director, played the cornet; her mother was a classically trained pianist.  In the 1970s, A.

MORRISON, TONI (18th Feb. 1931 - 5th Aug. 2019) was a renowned and award-winning American author and professor. Morrison wrote extensively about the plight of African Americans and Black people, focusing on the Black female experience. 

Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18th, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, to George and Ramah Willis Wofford. Morrison was the second youngest of four siblings. 

The MOTHERS' AND YOUNG LADIES' GUIDE was not only the first magazine believed to have been published in Cleveland but also the only women's periodical issued at the time in the West. Published by TIMOTHY H. SMEAD, proprietor of the OHIO CITY ARGUS, and edited by Mrs.

MUELLER, MARGARET CROWL REID (20 August 1929 – 10 August 2018) was social worker, political candidate, preservationist, and the creator of one of Cleveland’s most notable small restaurants.  

The Cleveland Diocesan Council of the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN (NCCW) began as one of the country's earliest local groups, organized by Bp. JOSEPH SCHREMBS in 1922. Schrembs had founded the national organization (1919-20) while serving in Toledo. NCCW, a federation of over 150 organizations, supports, empowers, and educates Catholic women.

NORTON, ANDRE (17 Feb., 1912 - March 17, 2005)  born Alice Norton, was a prominent American science fiction author known better by her pseudonyms Andre Norton and Andrew North. Norton was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Adalbert Freely Norton and Bertha Stemm Norton.

NOTRE DAME ACADEMY opened on 10 Sept. 1877. It was founded by the SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME who began an educational tradition which continues to the present.

NOTRE DAME COLLEGE is a Catholic liberal arts institution founded in Cleveland by the SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME in 1922.

The OHIO WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (OWSA) led and organized Ohio women in the long fight for the right to vote for almost half a century. Founded in Cincinnati in September 1869, with national suffrage leaders such as Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone in attendance, its purpose was to “advance the cause of woman suffrage and thereby to make our government in fact what it is in theory – a government of the people.”

PARKER, ADELE von OHL (13 Dec. 1885 - 21 Jan.

The POOR CLARE (COLETTINE) RELIGIOUS, who live a life of prayer and poverty as decreed by both St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare, established their first American convent on 10 Aug. 1877 in a former school at McBride and Broadway in Cleveland.

PRENTISS, JENNIE WARREN (17 October 1870-5 April 1946) was a women’s educator who was a founder of the predecessor to LAUREL SCHOOL.  She was born in Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio to parents Chauncey Prentiss and Emily Hanks.

PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN is descended from a number of Presbyterian organizations, including the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church of Cleveland organized on 12 June 1872 at Second Presbyterian Church. That group had grown out of the Parlor Missionary Society, organized in 1833 at FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (OLD STONE).

PRICE, CONSTANCE MATHER (21 July 1918 - 25 May 1997) was active in civic affairs, sports, and theater throughout her life. She was born in Boston to Madeleine Almy and Philip Richard Mather, an industrialist and philanthropist who was on the board of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.